problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24)

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:12 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:04 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:47 pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > # jhb at freebsd.org / 2005-11-09 10:22:07 -0500:
> > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:22 am, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > > > > I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the
> > > > > above mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own)
> > > > > memory is probably corrupt :-)
> > > >
> > > > That's correct.
> > >
> > >     EAMBIGUOUS.
> > >
> > >     Which part is correct? "mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD
> > > 6.0" or "my (own) memory is probably corrupt"?
> >
> > You don't need atpic on 6.0.
>
> Not true.  My Athlon 2x Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA-K8NSC-939) requires atpic
> or it will not boot.  This is an nVidia nForce3-Pro250 board.

You need to post a problem report about it then since we are probably going to 
remove atpic in 7.0.  When atpic was taken out of GENERIC in HEAD recently no 
one said it broke for them.  What problems do you see with atpic taken out on 
6.0?

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